Connecticut

death row: Connecticut abolished the death penalty in April 2012, but law was not made retroactive so 11 remain on death row. (as of April 1, 2013, source: DPIC)

year of last executions: 0-0-0

death sentences: 0

executions: 0

international treaties on human rights and the death penalty:

situation:The method of execution is injection. The sentence is determined by a jury. The death row is located at Somers. As for the clemency process, the State Board of Pardons has exclusive authority to grant clemency.

Hands off Cain is an international league of citizens and parliamentarians for the abolition of the death penalty in the world. It is a non-profit, non-violent, transnational and trans-national Partito Radicale founded in Brussels in 1993 and recognized in 2005 by the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs as a development co-operation NGO.